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Researcher

Valentin Carlan

  • Research Expertise:Valentin Carlan (°1986) is a postdoctoral researched at the Department of Transport and Regional Economics of the Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Antwerp. His research focuses on innovation assessment models, cost and benefit quantification methods for maritime supply chain related innovation and applications of cost-effectiveness analysis for ICT developments. He has hold a doctoral grant financed by the BNP Paribas Fortis chair on transport, logistics and ports at TPR (2014-2016). Besides that ,he carried research with regard to ICT innovation in logistics on topic such as the introduction of a Truck Guidance System (TGS) at the port of Antwerp (2017), the development of a Cluster community system (2017), the development of a Universal Middleware Framework for Data Streaming (2018), the assessment of Belgium’s role regarding the introduction of a Hyperloop network in Europe (2019) and the development of a RoI-calculation tool for automatic loading/unloading technologies (2020). His PhD dealt with the costs, benefits and cost-effectiveness of ICT innovation in the supply chain. In parallel to his research activity, Valentin was the leading member of the winning team of the first Antwerp port Hackathon (2016) and the Hackathon of Volvo Trucks Belgium (2017). Since 2019 he is the co-founder of a spin-off of the University of Antwerp, DigiTrans. DigiTrans provides tailor-made digital assistants for planning operations in logistics that make use of ML and AI algorithms.
  • Keywords:INNOVATIONS, Economics and applied economics
  • Disciplines:Applied economics, Business administration and accounting, Economic development, innovation, technological change and growth, Economic history, Macroeconomics and monetary economics, Management, Marketing, Mathematical and quantitative methods, Microeconomics, Tourism, Other economics and business, Economic geography, Human geography, Recreation, leisure and tourism geography, Urban and regional geography, Other social and economic geography, Product development, Other social sciences
  • Research techniques:Literature review Market research Structurate and unstructured interviews Application of cost-effectiveness analysis, cost-benefit analysis
  • Users of research expertise:Logistics and transport service providers Transport and logistics sectors associations Port authorities Policy makers regarding ICT tools implementation